Xubuntu 19.10 vs. Lubuntu 19.10 RAM Comparison

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7PZdoWFnic&app=desktop

by maverick74 • 7 years ago

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cowmix• 7 years ago

No Mate in the mix?

maverick747• 7 years ago

Apparently Mate uses more RAM that Xfce or LXQt so, usually, the competition is between this two.

But i agree that a Mate comparison would be nice as well!

surfsvammel2• 7 years ago

How is it relevant if the DE consumes 300mb or 400mb of RAM when idle? (honest question)

I’d like to see a CPU/power consumption comparison. I’d love to see how Pantheon, KDE and the new version of Gnome holds up. Maybe I’ll do such a test myself!

My workstation has 32Gb of ram, my laptop 16Gb. RAM is normally not an issue. When I run data intense stuff, that needs all RAM, I run without a DE.

aidenn02• 7 years ago

Virtual machines? My laptop has 32GB of ram and my workstation has 64GB. If I need 1GB instead of 2GB per VM, then I have a lot more breathing room.

tutfbhuf• 7 years ago

For me it's input lag. DEs and applications with high memory requirements feel sluggish. Maybe that have to do with L1/2/3 cache misses, which are more likely for bigger applications, whereas some WMs might fit entirely into the CPU cache.

AlexeyBrin• 7 years ago

AFAIK, Xubuntu and Lubuntu are targeted to low spec (think at virtual machines) or old machines where the RAM usage is significant.

zumu2• 7 years ago

They still sell computers with 4gb of ram, so it doesn't even have to be an old computer.

fierarul• 7 years ago

For you RAM is normally not an issue. Plenty of machines that would need Xubuntu / Lubuntu are having RAM issues. 100MB is a whole lot!

Honestly, if you have 32GB of RAM, I don't even see what would you save by running without a desktop environment: get an extra 1.5% extra RAM?

I've restored my old machine last year and I've been surprised how much 'value for RAM' you could get years ago. I could run Windows 95 on the little machine with Office 97 and do something with it. While a modern Linux doesn't even have a kernel for 16MB of RAM, not to mention an office suite.

surfsvammel2• 7 years ago

I run outside the DE because I have had more problems with CUDA stuff hanging the computer during long running jobs when running inside of a DE. Nothing worse than waking up to check results of some long job in the morning only to realised it crashed 15 minutes in.

You are right, of course, about it not being a problem for those two machines. I didn’t realise Xububtu and Lububtu profiled themselves as low requirements OS’.

zumu2• 7 years ago

Some people don't have that much ram? Ram is still expensive, especially when bundled with laptops.

DKnoll2• 7 years ago

It would be a better comparison if both systems were on equal footing. In this demonstration the Xubuntu system has swap enabled and the Lubuntu system doesn't. The load averages should also not be taken into consideration as the Lubuntu system has only been up for ~1 minute and the Xubuntu system has been up for ~20.

maverick747• 7 years ago

So... Do you mean xubuntu could have a better score or lxqt?

DKnoll2• 7 years ago

I don't mean either, I just mean the methodology isn't great.

panpanna• 7 years ago

I have been told the kde has similar (or maybe even lower) footprint despite doing more.

maverick747• 7 years ago

Yes, despite all the bad advertising and all the persistent ghost (that just won't go away) KDE's Plasma as evolved a lot over the years and is now very lite while doing a lot of things (and if you have a sluggish Plasma DE, then your computer or distro DOES HAVE A PROBLEM that is not KDE's fault)

lousken3• 7 years ago

for me KDE plasma isn't sluggish but cold starting apps like dolphin is significantly slower than xfce's thunar, thunar it's pretty much instant while dolphin is about 1.5s

morekozhambu• 7 years ago

Why run a full DE, when all you need is openbox, tint2 and conky?

maverick747• 7 years ago

Well not everyone is a techie.

Most people don't mind having a lite DE as long as it's not too ugly (or feeling like win98), has a familiar GUI and is not hard to configure.

OpenBox (beside being feature complete - no new features allowed and locked with x11) does not have that "familiar" GUI.

But for more techie people, openbox is a solution, or the new sway or even the terminal!

Xubuntu 19.10 vs. Lubuntu 19.10 RAM Comparison

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